On 2/23/19 10:58 AM, Daniel Schepler via lfs-dev wrote:
I just noticed that section 9.1 "The End" creates a file
/etc/os-release. However, the systemd documentation [os-release(5)]
recommends that this file should be in /usr/lib/os-release and that
/etc/os-release should be a relative symlink to /usr/lib/os-release.
So, I wonder if lfs-systemd at least should be updated accordingly,
and possibly the base lfs as well.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
"The file /etc/os-release takes precedence over /usr/lib/os-release.
Applications should check for the former, and exclusively use its data
if it exists, and only fall back to /usr/lib/os-release if it is
missing. Applications should not read data from both files at the same
time. /usr/lib/os-release is the recommended place to store OS release
information as part of vendor trees. /etc/os-release should be a
relative symlink to /usr/lib/os-release, to provide compatibility with
applications only looking at /etc. A relative symlink instead of an
absolute symlink is necessary to avoid breaking the link in a chroot or
initrd environment such as dracut."
Since we have /etc/os-release and /usr/lib/os-release is only
recommended, I think we are OK.
-- Bruce
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